Kaya Mallick is a scholar of yoga, a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (200-RYT), and creator of The Woke Yogi. She is a Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellow (2024-25) and a two-time Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow (2022-24). She discovered yoga eight years ago by accident, stayed out of spite, and ultimately fell in love with the tradition. Her classes now integrate modern psycho-somatic practices with a rich lineage of Indic philosophies.